Bestun Station

Bestun
The station building still stands as of 2009.
Location
Place Ullern
Municipality Oslo
Line(s) Drammen Line
Distance 4.31 km
Service
Opened 15 July 1884
Architect Eivind Gleditsch
Platforms 2
Owner Norwegian State Railways
Line operator(s) Norwegian State Railways
Connections

Bestun Station (Norwegian: Bestun stasjon) is a closed railway station located on the Drammen Line in Oslo, Norway. It is located between Skøyen and Lysaker.

The station opened on 15 July 1884 as Vækkerø. It changed name to Bestum on 15 August 1890, and to Bestun on 1 September 1922. It was closed in 1978.[1]

The first station building was drawn by Georg Andreas Bull, but it was removed during the interwar period and re-erected at the Norwegian Railway Museum. A new station building, which still stands, was drawn by Eivind Gleditsch and completed in 1918.[2]

References

  1. ^ Norwegian Railway Club. "Bestun". http://forsk.njk.no/stdb/index.php?Stnr=2204&aut=&mod=st&sid=899. Retrieved 2008-06-28. 
  2. ^ Tvedt, Knut Are, ed (2000). "Bestun stasjon". Oslo byleksikon (4 ed.). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. p. 61. ISBN 82-573-0815-3. 
Preceding station Line Following station
Skøyen Drammen Line Lysaker
Stations
Closed stations
Jong · Ramstad · Strand · Myra · Bestun · Skarpsno · Oslo V
Unused stations
Branch lines
Tunnels